By: J.V Capone
Part II: Mode of Production Distortions on Historical Chronology
In Part I of our series, we looked at the particular case of the alleged antiquity historian ‘Herodotus’ and we were able to trace the extended works to the Renaissance in Italy, about 1,900 consensus dating (hereafter ‘c.d’) years after the claimed date of production.
In that article we made reference, without elaboration, to two particular mechanisms of historical distortion. At the time we wrote: Continue reading
By: Boris Nad
Boris Nad
‘Through the Door of History’ – an Introduction by custodian Joaquin Flores:
The Center for Syncretic Studies presents the next installment of our series on the works of Serbian novelist and philosopher Boris Nad. While published previously on his own site, we take a critical examination of the ideas of Nad towards a broader and contemplative debate. The question of ‘society’ itself is a meta-sociological and meta-historiological, i.e historiographical quandary that when taken to its core ought to stab at the epistemological foundation therein. Continue reading
J.V Capone
Deconstructing The Western Tradition, Part I.
A brief introduction to a critical analysis of ‘primary’ source material as the foundation of the so-called Western Tradition which focuses on the work of Herodotus
The problem of historical chronology is one which until recently garnered little attention. With the development of the information revolution through the internet, broader segments of humanity were given access to academic source and primary source material. Thus the academic “Ausländer”, the Generalist, and free-thinking layman alike were able to, for the first time, critically review the ‘iron tenants’ of many fields including historiography. Continue reading
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by: Joaquin Flores
rotests and demonstrations opposing the ruling AKP in Turkey have rocked Istanbul, Ankara, and other cities over the last week. There are a number of demands, social and 
economic, but also significant among them is the demand to pull out of Syrian intrigues, end the alliance with NATO and USrael, and even for Erdogan to step down. This is either aimed at ushering in new elections before the 2014-2015 election cycle or possibly even something more radical than this. Naturally the latter possibility will depend in large part on both the role of the trade unions and the military. Both institutions having large numbers of sympathizers of nationalism (and related), Kemalism, and communism (and related); these can with some provisos be placed under the category ‘Eurasianist Current in Turkey’ and under this the subheading ‘Ergenekon’ [1.] Continue reading
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